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The City of Kamloops’ plan to build a new daycare at the Parkview Activity Centre near McDonald Park on the north shore has hit a roadblock of sorts.
Acting Social, Housing and Community Development Manager, Natasha Hartson, says they’ve had to temporarily put their plans on hold after the City’s application for provincial funding was denied.
“We did seek feedback from the Province to understand why our application was not successful,” Hartson told CFJC Today. “The message that we heard was that it was a very oversubscribed program and that they had to make some very hard choices and decisions.”
The City applied for funding from the ChildCareBC New Spaces Fund to turn the Parkview Activity Centre into a new daycare. It was one of three smaller projects announced as part of the Build Kamloops initiative.
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